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Does Bruce have a life expectancy of three years? What division will we be in in 2024?

Canny. Like the joy division bits.

Turns out the woman in question he's accused of battering is his wife

Tremendous, by the way.

I think it went something like "Her husband posted a negative tweet" "She's not married" "Yes she is" "oh". So it was relevant in the context of the suggestion her husband had reacted.

Ffs

Hate crimes are treated as more serious than other crimes because they have a wider and more detrimental effect on society. If someone in your town gets beaten up because they had a row over a taxi rank, it primarily affects one person. But if they got beaten up because of who they are - because they're black, because they're gay, because they're Jewish, and you're one of the only other black/gay/jewish familes in that town, that serves as a real threat and a warning to you specifically that there are people who don't want you there and want to hurt you. And sometimes that's the intention - gangs of Nazis in Russia film their attacks on immigrants because they want them to go viral and make immigrants feel they shou;d leave Russia, or not move there. Hanging an effigy of Beckham is abhorrent, but it's an attack on him alone. Nobody called David, nobody who's white, nobody who's got a floppy hair-do is going to look at that and wonder if they're next, if the people who did that look at them the same way. When the abuse is directed specifically at black players and is racist in nature, and directed at them because of their race, it has a wider effect than just telling someone you hate them because they screwed up on the pitch. It's all very well telling someone to get over personal criticism of themselves, but when abuse is racist it's also an attack on your parents, your brother, your kids. On hundreds of other people who can't just be told "Oh, you're a rich young footballer I'm sure you'll get over it" if that was even a reasonable response in the first place.

They had that logo on the bottom of all their motivational flags in the stands when the fans were kept away, so one of them read COME ON YOU GUNNERS VISIT RWANDA Think they've got enough mate

Call of Duty gun camo, shirt edition.

Ref looks like a licorice allsort. You know the one.

I went to uni in Stoke at a time when Stoke City were proper shit, League One or Two and so all the Stoke hoolies were massively into England. Put me off England a bit for life, just sitting trying to have a pint with dickheads with their shirts off chucking shit about singing about the IRA and the Pope cos England had a friendly on the telly at 3pm in the afternoon.

Surely the worst England fans can't really celebrate this because it's been won by a team of Marxist virtue singallers/people who were openly anti-racist?

Managed to split my shift so I can run down a pub for kick off, watch the match and run back to get to my desk whe when I have to start work again. If there's extra time, I'll have to just miss it.

I've seen it confuse Americans on Twitter to see some folk with FTM in their name being small minded bigots, because outside of the Wearside bubble it signifies someone is female-to-male transgender.

Seem to remember Rangers fans saying they needed to size up on theirs, dunno if ours are snug as well. Could just be lockdown chub and denial I guess.

Prounced cass-tor isn't it? Just some invented word by two Scousers based on the Greek figure Castor, so done think you get all foreign with "Castroray"

I've foud if you order really early after a reveal they're putting them on there on the assumption/hope they can get their hands on a copy in time to send it rather than knock-off factories getting them cloned in a day. Last time I ordered an away kit as soon as it as revealed they eventually sent me an empty parcel. DH Gate told me to weigh it and they must have been able to see there was nowt in it from the weighin info on the tracking, so was immediately refunded, but still a pain.

PIF clearly isn't separate from the state, so I guess we're hoping one set of bullshit merchants in the form of the PL accepts the bullshit excuse of another?

Gif version